EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Shockingly poor data hygiene. Why K–12 Students’ Data is Valuable to Cyberattackers . Data Security Starts with Simple but Essential Steps.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Shockingly poor data hygiene. Why K–12 Students’ Data is Valuable to Cyberattackers . Data Security Starts with Simple but Essential Steps.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Shockingly poor data hygiene. Why K–12 Students’ Data is Valuable to Cyberattackers . Data Security Starts with Simple but Essential Steps.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Shockingly poor data hygiene. Why K–12 Students’ Data is Valuable to Cyberattackers . Data Security Starts with Simple but Essential Steps.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Shockingly poor data hygiene. Why K–12 Students’ Data is Valuable to Cyberattackers . Data Security Starts with Simple but Essential Steps.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Shockingly poor data hygiene. Why K–12 Students’ Data is Valuable to Cyberattackers . Data Security Starts with Simple but Essential Steps.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Smartphones in schools have also proven to be a distraction to learning, yet fewer than a quarter of countries ban their use in schools. “We When the evidence only comes from the technology companies themselves, there is a risk it may be biased.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Endless Network , a global organization committed to addressing equity disparities stemming from issues such as inadequate internet access, strategically invests in companies worldwide that align with their mission and actively contribute to its realization. This article highlights the initiatives of one such company, Rocket Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Companies like to talk about their journey in raising money and growing over time, and one waypost for such journeys is to reach the ringing bells of a stock-market debut. heard those bells today, as the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange—though the initial price ended up on the low end of expectations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

For one, the poll of about 1,000 parents with kids under the age of 18—conducted by public opinion and data company YouGov—found that parents have more positive feelings about their kids using tech in the classroom, as opposed to at home. Larry Shannon-Missal, the head of data services for YouGov’s U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

As noted by MIT Technology Review , the rapid development and uptake of AI solutions has created an environment where companies may “obfuscate and oversell” AI abilities even as organizations race to implement new solutions and keep up with the competition. The challenge? Separating market interest from authentic impact.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2020

As students and professors move across campuses, they leave plenty of digital traces—such as when their smartphones connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, or when they swipe their keycards to unlock buildings or enter dorm rooms. Some campus officials plan to use that data to try to contain COVID-19 when campuses reopen in the fall.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2020

This is the basic premise of Thinkster Math, a New Jersey-based company that marries replay technology with a tutoring service. The company has also undergone another marriage of sorts: an acquisition that will bring quizzes and other tools that help students prepare for the SAT and other standardized tests. near Princeton.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I do think that digital notes do help us because we can have them in our pocket available 24/7 when we have our smartphone with us. Every time I try to leave it, I end up back in January 2023, it was acquired by a company called Bending Spoons, a very reputable software company out of Europe. I've been using it for a long time.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Augmented data analysis, blended digital tools and connected networks will reign among technology innovations in the coming year, according to IT analyst group Gartner’s top 10 tech trends of 2019. . Artificial Intelligence Will Augment Data-Driven Initiatives. What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 96 percent of adults own a cell phone and 81 percent own a smartphone. And some corporations have designed higher education and workforce training micro-courses intended for smartphones. About half own a tablet computer, while three-quarters own desktop or laptop computers.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2019

“This advancement will help endpoint protection, email gateways, all of these vulnerable places where companies are working to deploy AI. Cloud Security Becomes Paramount to Keep Student Data Safe. Infected IoT devices will supply botnets, which can launch DDoS attacks, as well as steal personal data,” the McAfee researchers note.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Wouldn’t you love to experiment with 5G on your smartphone or play with Samsung’s foldable phone? App developers can work for software companies, retailers, in healthcare, in the travel industry, for the entertainment industry, or in financial services. An app developer used all of these before they ever went on sale.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 25, 2019

Considering that 95% of teens have access to a smartphone and 45% say they are online ‘almost constantly’ , they need all the support possible to avoid becoming victims of cyber threats. Read more: Digital security and safeguarding student and staff data. 3 Basic tips on teaching cybersecurity to your students.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. From the forms the company filed with the SEC last month, we learned the company conducted a study to evaluate Duolingo’s effectiveness versus traditional university language courses.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Another blow for Facebook in Europe: Judges in Belgium have once again ruled the company broke privacy laws by deploying technology such as cookies and social plug-ins to track internet users across the web. Facebook uses data it collects in this way to sell targeted advertising. Hackers Take Over U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Educators and caregivers may wonder why, as researchers, we are promoting a positive view of digital technologies for young adolescents, when an array of headlines suggest that smartphones and social media are responsible for problems ranging from rising rates of childhood obesity to a youth mental health epidemic.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In bringing affordable education to the workplace, companies like InStride, Guild, Degreed and EdAssist are addressing the biggest issues in higher education: career relevance and student debt. DreamBox, (another portfolio company) invests in efficacy research led by independent third-parties including Harvard and SRI International.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. But our data gets people to continue to use it.”

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. Data label, an online label manufacturing company, conducted a survey recently where people were asked whether they feel technology in schools has had positive effects on children. . Students nowadays have access to the latest and up to date technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At a morning session on Sunday, Kentaro Yoshifuji, CEO of Ory Lab , shared how a robot his company has developed is helping people with disabilities connect with friends, family and teachers when it’s difficult or near impossible for them to be physically present with peers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Children with smartphones have unfiltered access to the Internet unless their parents make a decision to filter. Why Do Students Need Protection on their SmartPhones? They were not a Disney company, but Disney purchased them in the last 18 months. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

AR is one of those EdTech products that has received a lot of hype — primarily from AR-based companies themselves. Is it too much to ask that students arrest their smartphone obsession for the brief period of a lesson? In other instances the technology is breathlessly promoted , without very much rigour by way of hard facts.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 24, 2019

Thus far, adaptive learning has been largely experimental, with companies and competitors having spent the past couple of years working out the kinks and engaging in small-scale execution. Beyond simple smartphone commands, AI has found a use in the context of eLearning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Data collection and analysis are cornerstones for many STEM and STEAM programs but they’re not just about math. Unfortunately, data collection hardware is expensive and setup is complicated–intimidating for many non-tech-minded teachers. False Target Rejection Technology for clean data. Collect data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

You know, there's a lot more to that when it comes to the biases of the data and important things like that. What About the Lack of Data Transparency with the Data Sets Used by AI? So the lack of data transparency really concerns me. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K. Have You Asked It?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

During the pandemic, many districts have addressed this gap by handing out personal hotspot devices (similar to routers) or smartphones, or provided mobile Wi-Fi on school buses to kids lacking internet. He added that both Chicago and North Dakota included data collecting into their models. That’s not a short-term solution.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

What's more, as students increasingly use devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets in the classroom, schools have had to adapt to find the best way to integrate that technology into the curriculum. Billings gathered data from classes over the course of two semesters and saw immediate, positive results.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 30, 2017

Smartphone Notifications. Smartphone notifications (with a quiet period where they won’t get notifications – like at night or weekends). For schools, there is a school-wide premium option which includes SIS integration, an administrator data dashboard, cross-year student timelines, more class storage, and premium support.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

The app then sends a notification to the person’s smartphone or tablet. The company plans to launch a pilot program with a school in India to see how the platform would work in the classroom. The company claims to have 225,000 users, most of them in the U.S. Is Data-Driven Parenting a Good Idea?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Bill Fitzgerald While Blaine is a fictional student, the technology that’s tracking him is real, and actually in use in some school systems, part of a growing set of tools that leave data trails about students throughout the day. In 2013, HeroK12 began offering educators an opportunity to collect and analyze student behavior data.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Thousands of teachers have taken to Twitter this week to blast the telecommunications company and defend Remind , a school communication platform used for everything from announcing homework assignments to contacting parents when a student is sick. In the latter case, the company pays a small fee for each text sent. Of its U.S.

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